The reason I recommend this product is because it is Free and really useful!
Free Data Export Component is a Community Edition of Spire.DataExport, which is a commercial/personal use Full Free .net component. As a free component, it also offers a lot of powerful functions. This free Data Export Component can easily help you export data from SQL/DataTable to XLS, PDF and MS Word, HTML, MS clipboard , XML, PDF, DBF, SQL Script, SYLK, DIF, CSV. Free Data Export Component is totally independent and not necessary to install Microsoft Excel or Adobe Acrobat or Microsoft Access on your machine. You also can use this free component to create Excel spreadsheet, PDF document or Access database.
Now, about my experience:
I created a Datatable to PDF tool by using this free component for C#. I am not a C# expert, but I can easily handle the whole programming codes. Thats very easy to use and you can get the result immediately. It offers a lot of document file formats choices for you. Almost all popular formats included.
I dont know any other free data component like this. Great!
Datatable to PDF tool
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Something not good is the limitation. Such as Hex String < 65536, multiple xls sheets are max 4 available only. But, as a totally free program, it should be recommend. Free Data Export Component